Archived from the original on September 15, 2010
However, smokers absorb only a fraction of the nicotine present in a cigaretteMarlboro or otherwise
Marlboro An international favorite with a bold flavor
When those living in states with a higher drinking age began driving across state lines to buy alcohol to where the age was lower, this resulted in Congress voting in 1984 to set 21 as the national minimum drinking age
The reported population-level trends in smoking, the countrys longest-running epidemic, might be a result of distinct, time-varying factors like age (association between age and smoking status), and/or period (differences in smoking prevalence due to changing sociocultural environments that shape smoking practices collectively among all individuals), and/or cohort (shifts in smoking status among groups of individuals that belong to different generations) 1,5,6